[Answered ]-Django Form Validation Only if User is Not Authenticated?

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the request object doesn’t go to the form.

But you can easily change the constructor of your form class to receive a user object:

def __init__(self, user, *args, **kwargs):
    self.user = user
    super(MyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

And then you can check if the user is authenticated later on:

def clean_email(self):
    if not self.user.is_authenticated():

If you really need the whole request object, you just need to add the self, otherwise it tries to access a global variable called request.
i.e: 

if not self.request.user.is_authenticated():

And of course, assign the object variable, so it can be accessible from any method of the class:

self.request = request
👤dfranca

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In the clean_email method, you do not automatically have access to the arguments passed to the __init__ method.

You need to store the request in self.request in the __init__ method, then you can access it in the clean_email method.

class MyForm(forms.ModelForm): 
    def __init__(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.request = request
        super(MyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def clean_email(self):
        if not self.request.user.is_authenticated():
👤Alasdair

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